english literature MCQs – Page 234

Practise multiple-choice questions from english literature for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

english literature Mcqs

1. introduction to literary theory 2. miscellaneous literature 3. famous playwright poet and others 4. introduction to literary studies 5. cultural and literary in modernity 6. ages era period 7. cultural and literary english renaissance 8. modern poetry and poetics 9. medieval literature and culture 10. african american literature 11. the gothic novel 12. american literature 13. language and linguistics 14. english romantic poetry 15. literary theory and criticism 16. cultural and literary 18th 19th centuries

4661. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in ?
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A. Germany

B. France

C. Italy

D. Mexico

4662. Identify the character who is a supporter of Womens Rights in Sons and Lovers ?
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A. Mrs. Morel

B. Miriam

C. Annie

D. Clara Dawes

4663. which famous Shakespeare play does the quote The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers come from ?
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A. Pericles, Prince of Tyre

B. Othello, the Moor of Venice

C. The Merry Wives of Windsor

D. King Henry the Sixth, Part II

4664. With the accession of King James to the English throne, Lord Chamberlains Man was renamed ?
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A. None of above

B. Kings Man

C. King Lear

D. Gentleman

4665. The reason for Eves fall might best be described as_______________?
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A. greed

B. lust

C. vanity

D. pride

4666. In Leda and the Swan, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan ?
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A. Zeus

B. Hercules

C. Bacchus

D. Mars

4667. The fruit of which tree were Adam and Eve forbidden to eat ?
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A. Tree of Life

B. Tree of God

C. Tree of Knowledge

D. Tree of Sin

4668. In which work Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced the term willing suspension of disbelief in 1817 ?
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A. Kubla Khan

B. Christabel

C. Biographia Literaria

D. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

4669. Who is the second attending gentlewoman on Hero? Ursula and_______________?
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A. Emilia

B. Celia

C. Helena

D. Margaret

4670. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson Faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. ?
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A. Synecdoche

B. Metaphor

C. Simile

D. Oxymoron

4671. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as ?
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A. Ottava Rima

B. Ballad

C. Rhyme Royal

D. Spenserian Stanza

4672. A man can die but once is one of quote of following plays ?
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A. Henry 6 part one

B. Henry 4 part two

C. Henry 6 part three

D. Henry 4 part one

4673. Who was villain in Othello ?
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A. None of above

B. Iago

C. Egeus

D. Claudius

4674. Everyday before the Fall Adam and Eve went out to work. What did their work consist of ?
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A. Hunting and gathering food

B. Building shelter to live in

C. Tending to the Garden of Eden

D. Naming all Gods creatures and plants

4675. When did Samuel Taylor Coleridge die ?
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A. 22 November 1836

B. 25 July 1834

C. 30 April 1822

D. 24 February 1841

4676. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the Cockney School of Poetry ?
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A. Tennyson

B. Lockhart

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Charles Lamb

4677. Which river is associated with Shakespeares birth place ?
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A. The Thames

B. The Tyburn

C. The Avon

D. The Seven

4678. Who wrote Biographia Literaria ?
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A. Lamb

B. Byron

C. Shelley

D. Coleridge

4679. Shakespeares father died in _______________?
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A. 1603

B. 1602

C. 1600

D. 1601

4680. Thackerays Esmond is a novel of historical realism capturing the spirit of ____________?
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A. the Medieval age

B. the Elizabethan age

C. the age of Queen Anne

D. the Victorian age

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